Links to some services of worship and music: choral, trans – Atlantic and contemporary, currently on the web
1.The bells of St Chad’s in Shrewsbury, Shropshire – BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014m6qv
2. An ecumenical Choral Evening Prayer service with the singers and performers of the Royal School of Music is available from Neresheim Abbey [RC] in Germany on the Feast of the Holy Cross last Wednesday – BBC Radio 3 – fabulous music – available until today/tomorrow
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014fhct
Prelude:Sinfonia settima (Johann Rosenmüller )
Introit: Adoramus te Jesu Christe (Jacob Handl)
Initium: Deus in adjutorium (Giovanni Gastoldi)
Psalms: Dixit Dominus,
Laudate pueri (Anon 17th cent)
Reading:1 Corinthians 1 vv18-25
Responsorium: O Crux ave (Richard Dering)
Homily:The Revd Fr Gregor Hammes OSB Office
Hymn: Vexilla Regis (Monteverdi) Magnificat on the eighth tone (Johann Kaspar Kerll)
Prayers and Lord’s Prayer (Robert Stone)
Anthem: Laudate Dominum (Monteverdi)
Chorale: Zieh an die Macht, du Arm des Herr
Organ Postlude: Toccata I (Georg Muffat)
3. BBC Sunday Worship came this week from Jordanhill Parish Church in Glasgow [Presbyterian Church of Scotland] on the theme ‘manna in the desert’ –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014m6r5
website:
http://www.jordanhillparishchurch.org.uk/
4. The Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama broadcasts http://www.850wxjc.com/
5. Choral Services are available from the chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge [previously unbroadcast recordings made last term are being podcasted weekly over the summer]
http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/default.php?page=webcast
Three new compositions by James Macmillan, James Long and John Rutter, written for the St John’s College’s Quincentenary in 2011:
http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/default.php?page=webcast&webcast=201#
6. Older recordings are also available from the chapel of New College, Oxford [nothing new until the new term]
http://www.newcollegechoir.com/webcasts.html
7. ‘Communion Hymn’ – Stuart Townend – Kingdom Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvX9Fa53-o